The Carnage Collection
is a low budget underground shorts collection compiled and
organized by Bob Ferreira and crew. Think of it as the
undergroundÃ­s answer to Tales from the Darkside,
Tales from the Crypt or Creepshow. We have a lot
of horror scene/movie group discussion folks pitching in on
this one, such as Thomas Townsend, Ryan Musick, Reuben
Claridge, Dan Ellis, Alberto Giovanelli as well as Canuck
horror guru Ryan Nicholson lending his suggestions and
direction on the make-up effects (sequences between the
shorts also flash parts from Nicholson's movie Gutterballs).

There is a bunch of stuff that makes up The Carnage
Collection. Short films ranging from funny, horrifying,
druggie type material, slasher and just plain old twisted
shit in general. Tales of killer clowns, murderous mannequin
Santas, drug experiences gone bad, dark angels, psychotic
boyfriends and one girl whose obsession with stuffed toys
overrides reality and sets her on a path to perverse murder.

Some of the shorts work and others not so much, but overall
the collection is an enjoyable ride. The wrap around story
for the collection has a guy accepting a suspicious free TV
package offer late at night from a salesman and all of the
shorts are his viewing. The killer Santa segment is so bad
itÃ­s good with Santa spewing out some lines like "suck my
fucking jingle balls," before he stabs a victim. The
Santa segment is very cheesy looking but tongue in cheek,
plus someone getting bludgeoned to death by a wrapped up
present until their head resembles a strawberry short cake
trifle, is bound to entertain.

Another short has a guy scoring some crazy LSD and going
through the mind-altering experience which you think would
deter him from doing it again but no, he wakes up and says "I
gotta get me some more of that shit!" Then we have a
poor sap whose love life has eluded him, so he decides to
passionately fuck his VCR. Then we get a clown who comes to
life from a girls sketches and goes on a killing spree. The
clown actually looks very fucking creepy. Kudos to the
make-up and costume design on it. There is one short about a
guy who is constantly being saved by what he believes to be
his guardian angel, but to his dismay, all is not what it
seems. One short has a couple guys looking to score some
killer weed and find it from a creepy figure in a cemetery.
They fuck themselves up immensely as one of them exclaims to
the other before sparking up "Are you ready to go to
fucking Venus?" Then we get a woman tortured by a masked
man until she fights back.

The longest running short at the end features a woman whose
lonely life revolves around talking to her stuffed toys. She
finally snaps one day and develops a different relationship
from the others with a stuffed sloth toy who goes by the
name of Rufio. Rufio starts telling her to kill and before
long she abducts a girl and some messed up shit occurs,
including a bizarre and graphic doll penetration sequence.
This last short goes on for far too long. I found myself
drifting in and out of this one.
It would have been far more effective
if shortened like the rest and it would have packed the
fucking KO punch because itÃ­s actually the most creative and
entertaining of the bunch.

The effects work is very low budget
but effective. They worked well with what they had. The
performances from the cast range from ad lib (as it even
states the actors were encouraged to improvise during
shooting) to decent, to reading off of cue cards type of
emotion. This one definitely has some balls and chops, so it
defies its budget. The Carnage Collectionis like a
bunch of fans came together to make an anthology for fans by
fans. Thanks to Bob Ferreira for letting me check this out.
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